Hello Scott
Unless the client specifically needs a separate environment you should avoid using mirroing. Set up load balancing as described in the article but ensure that all three machines can comminucate over UDP. Add the CMS box as the edit/admin machine then let the two web front ends handle the public traffic. Ensure the edit/admin UI is removed on the two front end boxes: http://epiwiki.se/configuration/episerver-cms/remove-edit,-admin-and-util-folders-on-the-front-end-servers
Also check out this article on securing the edit/admin UI: http://world.episerver.com/documentation/Items/Developers-Guide/EPiServer-CMS/75/Security/Securing-edit-and-admin-user-interfaces/
David
Thanks David. What are the scenarios that Mirroring is used then?. I've done load balancing a zillion times on EpiServer 6, Sitecore and Umbraco but it sounded very much when we did the EpiServer training like Mirroring was a replacement for traditional load balancing configuration? Can you elaborate?
Hi Scott
In general there are a couple of scenarios where mirroring is appropriate:
However it's worth bearing in mind that mirroring has inherent complexities so adds additional configuration, deployment and QA time to projects. Also mirroring isn't supported on Digital Experience Cloud (DXC) Cloud Configuration.
DXC is cloud hosted and uses a CDN to remove the reasons for some of the items above. Also the new Projects feature can also do away with some of the other reasons such as when used in a regulated environment as it's possible to preview the entire site with multiple changes.
My honest advice would be to think hard before using mirroring.
David
Thanks for the update, that all makes sense. For this project standard load balancing will suffice but I can see those scenarios being useful for some of the projects we have worked on should they have been EpiServer and not Sitecore. I'll keep note for future projects.
Thanks again.
Hi guys, I am setting up load balancing on EpiServer 8 for the first time, I've done a few builds but never been involved with this part of the setup. I not long ago had the proper training where Mirroring was mentioned but I just had a few questions if anyone can help that would be grand.
So our setup is a CMS box with 2 Web boxes, the firewall is doing the load balancing world. Would the recommended approach be setting up load balancing like http://world.episerver.com/documentation/Items/Developers-Guide/EPiServer-CMS/9/Deployment/Deployment-scenarios/Deploying-to-Windows-Servers/ and sharing the files/replicating or using Mirroring. A
As far as I was aware on the trianinging Mirroring was the correct way forward but I havn't found any great articles going in to it.
Thanks,
Scott